# Format error in 'Is it true men can suffer penile fracture?'

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/format-error-in-is-it-true-men-can-suffer-penile-fracture/331360>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [November 16, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/format-error-in-is-it-true-men-can-suffer-penile-fracture/331360 "2005-11-16T19:05:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/format-error-in-is-it-true-men-can-suffer-penile-fracture/331360/1 "2005-11-16T19:05:59Z")

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You’re missing an end-tag to the italics in [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2\_426.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_426.html) – it also looks like the italics is completely misplaced to begin with. I’m guessing it was meant for the phrase “_missed the introitus_” in the previous bullet from where the italics start.

Thought you’d like to know.

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**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/format-error-in-is-it-true-men-can-suffer-penile-fracture/331360/2 "2005-11-16T22:29:04Z")

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As long as we’re talking about formatting errors, whenever you search the archives and the results include the column [Is it true that armadillos carry leprosy?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a990219.html), the question mark in that column’s title and the rest of the search results are bolded, presumably because of an open tag before the question mark.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/format-error-in-is-it-true-men-can-suffer-penile-fracture/331360/3 "2005-11-16T23:44:44Z")

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I read the column in one of the books and just wanted to say the previously-unseen illustration cracked me right up, as it were.

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**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/format-error-in-is-it-true-men-can-suffer-penile-fracture/331360/4 "2005-11-17T08:42:51Z")

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Slug’s a genius, man. 🆒

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**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/format-error-in-is-it-true-men-can-suffer-penile-fracture/331360/5 "2005-11-17T16:43:53Z")

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An insane genius, but a genius nonetheless.